This video features Christian Tissier’s formidable 1999 demonstration at the huge Bercy Martial Arts Festival held in Paris each year. Tissier Sensei is extraordinary in his technical precision and total concentration from beginning to end of technique. Christian Tissier began aikido as a boy in France in 1962,. He spent eight years in Japan at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in Tokyo training with many of the art’s top masters. On his return to his native France, he brought back a new kind of aikido that soon captured the imagination of the Aikido world in his country and practitioners throughout Europe…